What the Bible does and does not say. What the Bible does and does not say. What we have come to know as the Star of. Bethlehem is mentioned only in two short passages - amounting to five verses - in the. Gospel of Matthew; there is no mention of it in the other Gospels at all. Why. is there no mention of the star in the other Gospels if it really was such an. Nativity? A partial answer can be given at once: The. Gospels were written by different people over many years and intended for. The Biblical texts. Our entire biblical account of the Star. Gospel. Matthew Chapter II verse 2 reads: “1 In the time of King Herod, after Jesus. Bethlehem of Judea, Magi from the East came to Jerusalem, 2 asking, ? For we have seen his star at its rising. Then, opening. their treasure- chests they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.”Historical interpretation of. Gospels. If modern. Biblical scholars are correct, it is not surprising that the star is mentioned. Purchase 'DVD Star of Bethlehem & Mystery of the Three Kings' by Running time: 97 minutes online here at Word Bookstore. Matthew’s Gospel. After the death of Jesus, his followers went. Roman Empire. They would have described the. Jesus did, and recounted – as best they could remember – the things. With the death of the first Apostles and with the destruction of the. The Star of Bethlehem. For example, 'We Three Kings' has the refrain: O star of wonder, star of night, Star with royal beauty bright, Westward leading. Jewish people (of which the early. Christian community regarded themselves as members), the time was right to set. Gospels were born. In many. respects, the Gospels are not “original” works, even though they were a unique. They were the selected, edited, and abridged versions of the. A simple explanation of why Matthew. Star, but Luke no is that Luke’s Gospel is a historical account of. Christ, whilst Matthew’s is more poetic and more mystical. The Star. interested Matthew, but not Luke. Matthew appears. to have been a Jewish Christian. His narrative has many quotations from the. Torah, and uses the phrase “so that the prophesy might be fulfilled” or some. We find these words four times in. Matthew II, in verses 1. Matthew describes the flight. Mary, Joseph and the infant, but they do not appear in the account. Star. And yet, given the author’s command of the scriptures, he would. Oracles of Balaam, which form Numbers XXIV, 1. In particular. there are the verses: “I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near - a star shall come forth out of.
Jacoband a sceptre shall rise out of. Israel; it shall crush the borderlands of. Moaband the territory of all the Shethites”,Which are taken. This text is one of the principal reasons. Matthew “invented” the Star to give. Nativity and to show that the prophesy of Balaam. Jewish. tradition, however, sees the Oracle of Balaam in a different way. Their. translation of the passage given above is substantially the same, although it. I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh: There shall step forth a star out. Jacob,And a sceptre shall rise out of. Israel,And shall smite through the. Moab,And break down all the sons of. Seth.”This passage was. Hertz, the late Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, to refer. King David, the first monarch to reduce King Moab to subjection. Messiah. Later, this same passage was taken to. Jewish resistance leader Bar Cozeba. Jewish war of independence which occurred under Emperor. Hadrian. In fact, Bar Cozeba’s name was even changed. Bar Cocheba (the Son of a Star) to reflect this. The sceptre is taken to mean a person who is a holder of a sceptre, that. What other “contemporary” texts. Star? Many people do. Matthew’s Gospel was set down, which do mention the Star, thus our. Matthew’s account. The Apocryphal Gospel. James, one of the texts that was not incorporated into the Bible by the. Council of Nicaea in 3. AD, mentions the star when. Herod’s questioning of the. Magi and said to them: `what sign did you see concerning the new. King?’ And the Magi said: `We saw how an indescribably great star shone. King was born for Israel. And we have come to worship him’, and Herod said. Go and seek and when you have found him, tell me, that I may also come to. And the Magi went forth. And behold, the star which they had seen. And it stood over. Curiously, James. Nativity and. ends with the author’s explanation that, at this point he was forced to flee to. Herod’s death. However, experts date. AD (Matthew is dated between. AD and Luke perhaps between 8. AD (with some. sources even suggesting a considerably earlier date for Luke). Another record. is found in the Epistle Number XIX of Ignatius, written to the Ephesians around. AD (which is perhaps only 3. Matthew’s Gospel): “Its light was unspeakable and its. This comment is. brief and to the point, although we have no idea what Ignatius’s source of. It, like the Apocrypha, but unlike Matthew. Star was an extremely. The clear implication of this brief passage. Star had appeared suddenly and unexpectedly. One suspects strongly. Star in both this text and James is poetic licence. In this case the Star. Bethlehem did not exist. It is basically a true account of some phenomenon which was. Nativity. 3. In this case, the Star existed. Nativity, but was not a natural phenomenon of. STAR OF BETHLEHEM - Mysterious Topics. During the Christmas season.
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